Chapter 99 Authentic
Just when Daqian’s marriage team arrived in Cangzhou.

At this time at Yaohua Pass.

The sun had just risen and the siege army had already deployed its troops.

The Cangzhou army was large in number and pressed towards the pass like a dark cloud.

Although the pass was dangerous, the soldiers guarding Yaohua Pass had been fighting for many days and were exhausted.

Under the command of Commander Li Jing, the Cangzhou army has been attacking Yaohua Pass for more than ten days.

At this moment, under the city wall of Yaohua Pass, Li Jing, who was leading the siege army, was tall, with a resolute face and eyes as sharp as an eagle.

Riding a black warhorse, he looked majestic and awe-inspiring.

Under his command, Cangzhou's siege troops launched the attack in batches in an orderly manner.

A large number of archers began to fire dense arrows at the top of the city.

The arrows whistled and poured down like a rainstorm.

The soldiers guarding Yaohua Pass held up their shields and struggled to resist the rain of arrows.

The arrow battlements on the city wall were riddled with holes, and the texture of the stone was filled with a strong smell of gunpowder.

Then, the huge catapult began to show its power.

They were like the arms of a giant, throwing huge rocks onto the city walls.

The huge rocks hit the city wall with a deafening roar.

The city wall was smashed to the point of crumbling, stones were flying, and smoke and dust were everywhere.

The soldiers defending the city were shaken to the ground. Under the high-intensity attack of the Cangzhou army for many days, some walls of Yaohua Pass had begun to collapse.

This was even more of a blow to the defenders of Yaohua Pass.

However, the generals defending the city did not give up resistance. They waved their spears and shouted at the soldiers to hold their positions.

Under his leadership, the exhausted soldiers regained their spirits and fought tenaciously against the besieging army with bows, stones and swords.

"Give the order to withdraw this batch."

Looking at the Cangzhou soldiers falling down on the field, Li Jing had a blank expression on his face.

He knew that in order to break through this strong pass, he had to come up with a more clever method, otherwise he would just have to rely on the lives of the Cangzhou army.

It's not impossible.

But the final casualties will surely be heavy.

Strictly speaking, this was Su Ye's first large-scale battle since he became the governor of Cangzhou.

But you can't fight so ugly.

So he ordered his soldiers to pretend to retreat in order to tire out the soldiers defending the city.

The besieging army lit a bunch of bonfires outside the city and pretended to retreat.

At the same time, hundreds of soldiers armed with shovels and pickaxes quietly dug tunnels day and night under the cover of battlefield smoke.

The earth they dug out was cleverly covered up to avoid being discovered by the soldiers guarding the city.

The tunnel gradually extended under the city wall, but the soldiers guarding the city knew nothing about it.

This was obviously the result of Li Jing's strategy of tiring out the troops over the past few days.

Over the past few days, the attack has continued with high intensity.

Li Jing naturally would not simply think of filling this pass with the lives of the Cangzhou army.

It might even be a strategy to tire out the troops.

He wouldn't even try to attack so desperately.

He ordered his soldiers to attack the city in turns, creating the illusion that the offensive was unabated.

Archers continued to fire arrows at the top of the city walls, catapults threw boulders at the walls, and the infantry launched a charge.

Although these attacks caused some damage to the city walls, their real purpose was to consume the physical strength and will of the defending troops.

The generals guarding Yaohua Pass may have been somewhat aware of Li Jing's plan, but they could do nothing about it, as it was an open conspiracy.

Faced with the absolute numerical advantage of the Cangzhou army, they had to defend the city with all their might.

They may have observed Cangzhou's continuous attacks and the movements outside the city and began to suspect that the enemy was digging tunnels.

But this has no effect.

The tunnel warfare was highly concealed, under the continuous offensive of the Cangzhou army led by Li Jing.

They simply didn't have the time to determine the exact location and size of the tunnel.

Instead, they are worried that if they act rashly, they will alert the enemy.

Under such anxiety and fatigue, the morale of the soldiers defending the city began to waver.

They had been fighting continuously for many days and their physical strength was severely exhausted.

Under the command of Li Jing, the Cangzhou army took the opportunity to speed up the digging of tunnels and gradually approached the bottom of the city wall.

At this time, in the tunnel under Yaohua Pass.

Several war gods of the Cangzhou army, including Sun Wukong and Wu Wenhua, were working hard to dig tunnels inside.

Previously, relying on the fact that the defending troops were unfamiliar with them, Sun Wukong and other war gods had attacked the city walls several times.

It posed a huge threat to Yaohua Pass.

However, after the defenders of Yaohua Pass reacted.

The situation is just the opposite.

The archers and crossbowmen guarding the city are not vegetarians, and Sun Wukong and his companions are not the kind of people who can fly and hide in the ground as described in mythology.

Faced with the continuous aimed shooting from the archers defending the city, and the bombardment from the crossbows aimed at them.

Moreover, Yaohua Pass is the first pass for Qizhou to defend against the army of Cangzhou.

After King Qi of Qizhou learned that the army from Cangzhou was invading, he urgently mobilized a batch of supplies to Yaohua Pass.

This includes the "Breaking Gang Crossbow", "Splitting Gang Arrow" and "Breaking Qi Crossbow Arrow" equipment used by the imperial army in the Tianwu Continent to deal with these war gods and celestial beings.

Dense "Splitting Arrows" and heavy "Smashing Air Crossbow Arrows" continued to fall around them. Even though they were all war god-level warriors, facing this luxurious level of targeting still posed a huge threat to them.

Therefore, under such targeting, Sun Wukong, Wu Wenhua, Baihu and others had to go down into the tunnel themselves and lead the soldiers to continue digging the tunnel.

The tunnel was small and dimly lit, and the only sounds that could be heard were the sound of shovels digging the soil and the heavy breathing of the soldiers.

The tunnel was very humid and clothes were easily damp, which made it even more unbearable for the already exhausted soldiers.

Sun Wukong was the first to break the dull atmosphere, "This damn tunnel is even more uncomfortable than crawling into a rat hole."

As he spoke, he dug the soil with sweat pouring down his face.

"We are forced into this."

"If we continue to attack like this, and if we allow those archers and crossbows to continue attacking, our casualties will be even more severe."

Baihu gave a bitter smile, but his hands did not stop moving.

His whole body was filled with platinum-colored energy, and he was waving the shovel in his hand rapidly.

Suddenly, there was a violent vibration and a loud noise was heard above the tunnel.

The three of them looked up and saw a huge rock falling from the sky and hitting near the entrance of the tunnel.

The tunnel was suddenly filled with dust and several soldiers were injured by flying stones.

Sun Wukong roared, "Damn it, the army defending the city is really unscrupulous."

"Once I finish digging this tunnel, I will knock all their heads open!"

He waved the shovel in his hand and dug even harder.

Baihu hurriedly comforted the frightened soldiers, "Don't panic, stay calm."

As he spoke, he organized the soldiers to provide emergency treatment.

(End of this chapter)